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The idea came screeching into director Justin Lin's fuel-injected imagination in 2009: a fiery escape scene featuring a muscle car that crashes out of an airplane during takeoff.

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NEW YORK The slow, lingering demise of 'Smash' has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.

Gathering in a group and listening to a well-trained voice tell a story is probably the mellowest, not to mention most ancient, of our social pleasures.

A 1931 Mack firetruck was parked on streets wet from rain Sunday morning outside a building that once housed Victory Theater.

Seeking African-Americans for webisode series, "The Greek Chronicles," that follows the Greeks and wannabes of fictitious Bindford College.

Three couples, an indiscretion, a cover-up, accusations and crumbling alibis on overlapping sets all lead to confusion and uproarious comedy in the Hampton Theatre Company's revival of Alan Ayckbourn 's "How The Other Half Loves," opening on May 23 for a three-week run in Quogue.

Leeper did an amazing acting job with a wonderful piece of theater . Leeper is alone on stage for 90 min as he plays 5 different GLBT characters.

"After the game was over, John ran over and hugged me because he was happy I could be at his game.

See the new movie, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' playing at GTC Cherokee 16 in Woodstock and Carmike Riverstone 15 Cinemas in Canton .

"I love solo shows and multiple characters. That's the kind of stuff that's so rich and it gets to the core of people's humanity.

Susan Roche for Shorelines The cast of A Streetcar Named Desire, Kenneth Dowling Jr.

New York : Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life will play Broadway's Schoenfeld Theater.

The Comet Theater, in business since 1939, got its own happy ending this week when an online fundraising campaign surpassed expectations and will keep the curtain from descending on the venerable movie house.

The Ridgefield Theater Barn has introduced a new workshop for teens, The Fundamentals of Improv class taught by Rick Hodder, the director of the wildly successful in-house improv comedy troupe, the Role in the Hay Players.

When Charles Bradley and I met up at Daptone Records to discuss the release of his sophomore album Victim of Love back in April, his headlining show at The Apollo was a prominent topic of conversation, though much of the Apollo talk never made it to print.

A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against Homophobia.

Grinnell Hall's new Senior Theatre Group is seeking a director. If interested, call Paula Schutt, senior center coordinator, at 608-364-2875 or email schuttp@ci.beloit.wi.us. Her opening act was May 2, when she scheduled an organizational meeting for a new Senior Theatre Group.

An aging theater in Greenbelt is getting a new lease on life. Voters in a social media contest decided the Greenbelt landmark was worthy of winning big money.

The Cannes Film Festival is all about old-school charm and glamour, but it knows the importance of nurturing its younger talent.